Jonathan Shaw

Jonathan Shaw is Managing Editor.
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University News |

Harvard College Reinstitutes Mandatory Testing

Applicants for the class of 2029 must submit scores.

University Finances |

Climate-Solutions Investments Exceed 1 Percent of Endowment Assets

Harvard Management Company’s fourth annual climate report

Benton Taylor with cottonwood saplings in a greenhouse at the Arnold Arboretum

Features | May-June 2024

Can Plants Sequestering Carbon Slow Climate Change?

How long will the world’s forests impound carbon below ground?

A colorful, cubist-like illustration of a Harvard classroom with a robotic humanoid head looming above.

John Harvard's Journal | May-June 2024

How is Artificial Intelligence Being Taught at Harvard?

A new Harvard course on artificial intelligence teaches students how to use the tool responsibly.

Tom Ginsburg, Ned Hall, Janet Halley, Robert C. Post, and Tomiko Brown-Nagin

University News |

Universities in Public Debates

Institutional position-taking at Harvard and in higher education

How air pollution impacts our brains

Health & Medicine |

How Air Pollution Affects Our Brains

An expert Harvard panel discusses the links between air pollution and dementia, learning, mental health, and mood.

Panelists at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health spoke about cancer and nutrition

Health & Medicine |

How to Prevent Cancer through Nutrition

Expert advice for daily life

AI-generated illustration showing a giant octopus, its tentacles reaching around a brick university building

John Harvard's Journal | March-April 2024

Applying AI—How and Why

Using AI in pedagogy, research, and University administration

illustration of robotic hands manipulating a wooden maze to guide a worm in the maze to a target

Right Now | March-April 2024

Computational Control of a Living Brain?

How an AI agent learned to guide an animal to food—and what it might mean for Parkinson’s patients.

Kenneth C. Frazier and Joseph Y. Bae

University News |

Kenneth C. Frazier and Joseph Y. Bae to Join Harvard Corporation

Will succeed David M. Rubenstein and Paul Finnegan

Meghan O'Sullivan 

Social Sciences |

Geopolitics and the Energy Transition

International relations during the shift to a net-zero economy

Map showing locations and description of Harvard’s ten-year construction plans on its Allston campus.

The Changing Campus |

Harvard Previews Future Building Plans in Allston

Regulatory filing on the University’s next decade of construction expected this week